Indeed, a pwopah woman that Rosie, ya wouldn’t be cauld in the winter with her, not like that Galadriel, jaysus you’d be freezing in that place, all white lights and shit. Mind you she had a bit more about her than that Arwin. Good horse-rider but wouldn’t have been much help in a ruck outside the chipper.

YOU DURTY, ROTTEN BAXTARD !!!

I now have Banty’s voice in my head…and it won’t go away…

On the Star Wars, LOTR, HP thing…methinks you have to start reading/watching books/fillums of that nature, at a relatively early age, to get you into them in the first place. If they pass you by then, it’s unlikely you will all of a sudden develop a mad interest in them, or “get” the emotional impact of them, when you are a life hardened, cynical 40 year old.

Found it very difficult to take it all in first time round. But loved it on second reading. A lot of things from The Hobbit and TLOTR become clear.

Yeh it’s incredible when you see that whole world open up, really adds massive depth to the other stuff. I sort of liked “knowing that it’s there”, the mystery of it, when reading LOTRs.

Would like to have seen the GAA stats from way back in Middle Earth too! You know, that period in time where they said that ‘men’ were finished, and the world now belonged to the Orcs, given that men had only won two All-Earths in 33 years in the All-Earth Football Championships, the Elves (KOTF) had won 14, and even the Dwarfs and the Trolls had won 3 or 4.

Ah yeah, you can defintiely see more nuanced stuff when you are older, than you did when you were younger. But when you are younger, your mind is just more open and receptive to that whole fantasy world in the first place. It’s harder to get a 41 year old to become vested in the fates of wizards and elfs and whatnot, than it is when he was 14.

There may be exceptions like Game of Thrones, that people start watching to see what all the fuss is about. But that’ll be a stand alone show and experience imo. Would all that many GoT fans then immediately rush out and get the Blade Runner, Star Wars or 'Arry Potter DVD’s because the blondy wan and her dragon left them so…ahem…inspired?

Saw the trailer for the new Blade Runner movie yesterday. Looked spectacular. Hope the special effects don’t swamp the story line. The original will take some beating.

That’s a situation where while you may regret it afterwards, you’d punch the head off the cowardly little scobe who did that. There is a generation that is missing a few links and it’s terrifying. Technology has a lot to answer for.

One of the difficulties in dealing with that sort of stuff is that the coverage of it now means those kids are celebrities and in terms of stopping it there’s little can be done, it’s up to the community, the family, friends etc.